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kip4:
is anybody here using reaper
im new to it and would love to know how it stacks up against cubase please
or any tips and avise

stainless:
I used to use Reaper much more than I do- it's very CPU friendly and it's great via ReWire if you have a lot of midi.

as a stand alone it seems to work just fine. Don't know if they have improved the interface capabilities with control surfaces, but if you use them, check that out.

I've gone to the "box" and no longer have a control surface or a mixer as my stand-alone pres are better than any mixer I could afford to buy, and a standing complaint I have with a great many company's that offer gear with interna;lpre-amps... you can't truly bypass all the circuitry... it seems pointless to run a high dollar pre through the gain circuitry of a multi-channel unit that costs a less than the pre-amps  going into it. So I rum my pre's directly into the converters

I've kinda settled on Digital Performer now (over ProTools)

but 'bang for your buck' Reaper is pretty hard to beat as an alternative platform

pyrohaz:
I personally think Reaper is brilliant :) I use it for all of my audio wants, along side with Audacity for final mastering touches. In college, I use Pro Tools and Logic Pro 8 and I can say IMHO that I prefer Reaper for recording all together, Logic is easy but annoys me when it comes to using AUX channels and Pro Tools doesn't come with many free plug ins! Reaper for the price is a brill DAW and if you don't like the interface, you can download skins :)

stainless:
pyrohaz

Welcome to HRS

I'm curious about the aux channels with Logic? I'm not a Logic user, so I have little experience with it. I learned on ProTools for 10 years, and now mainly use Digital Performer. I think Reaper a great deal for the cost, but have pretty much gravitated to DP, which once I got past the fairly marked difference between it and ProTools (in some cases I had to retrain the way I approached recording software) I like DP very much with no regrets about leaving PT (I gave my Power Mac with the last PT it would run to my bass player after realizing i wasn't going to use it anymore... and he's happy!)

DP has skins, which is nice on the eyes, but it's what it does- I can route to outboard gear for old school analog touches or work in the box (in fact I went from large mixer to control surface to just using the mouse... without issues... and I have a lot more area on my console/desk

so back to the aux in Logic... are they cumbersome, hard to set up and route?

pyrohaz:
Hey Stainless,
Thank you for the welcome :)

Well I don't use logic on a day to day basis because i'm on a Windows platform (The scourge for poor musicians! Haha) So I like Reaper a fair deal because its Windows really. But as you were asking, one feature I like about Reaper for example, say I am setting up a homogenous drum reverb where all the drum tracks are getting sent to one aux track with a 100% wet reverb plug in on top, on Reaper I can just solo the reverb aux channel and hear just the 100% wet reverb (I find this extremely useful as I can tailor the reverb to exactly how I want for the song to then be able to mix into the clean tracks). Unfortunately, you either can't or I haven't found a way yet to do this in Logic and I just find that the general aux channel system of logic can be annoying. On the other hand though, I do like how on logic you have the individual send volume control on each channel strip so you don't have to delve into the sends of each track to adjust the volume, this is very useful if you're using the aux track for feedback, e.g. with delay to produce intricate trails.

I'm quite impartial to the Pro Tools aux system as it is pretty much the same as Logic, unfortunately since I do own a windows PC, I can't really get to use Logic out of college time so I may be just being oblivious to how its done! I can't use Pro Tools either out of College because I don't have a Pro Tools verified piece of kit (I use an ESI interface, Pro Tools only seems to like M-audio interfaces or digidesign!)

How much does DP cost and is it an efficient DAW?

My laptop has the spec of:
1.8GHz Phenom II Quad core
8GB Ram
500GB 7200RPM HDD
4GB Readyboost (configured as HDD cache to speed up quick read and writes)
Radeon 6470M

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